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...Farce Fest. Through Dec.3. The Adams House Drama Society performs an array of French farces. Adams House Pool Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $5 general admission, $2 Adams House residents. (AMF)Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Concert. Through Dec. 3. The HRO performs Beethoven??s “Symphony No. 9.” The program also includes Beethoven??s “Fidelio Overture,” Mendelssohn’s “Verleih uns Frieden,” and Haydn?...
...Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 21 Koechel 467” with Robinson Professor of Humanities Robert D. Levin ’68, along with Claude Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Ludwig van Beethoven??s “Symphony...
Unlike most symphonies, Schumann’s “Symphony” has five movements rather than four. Its structure mirrors Beethoven??s “Symphony No. 6,” with two miniatures after the opening movement followed by a momentous event in the fourth movement, Schumann’s “Symphony” concludes with some sort of reaction to the event in the fifth...
...first event on the program, Johannes Brahms’ “Tragic Overture,” is a story of unfulfilled expectations—a dark and nervous piece of music haunted by lyrical dreams of tenderness. Like Beethoven??s third symphony, the “Tragic Overture” opens with two solitary chords. Unlike Beethoven, however, whose opening to his third symphony is bold and heroic, Brahms’ second chord is built unsteadily on a note one step above the tonic and is missing the third entirely. This foreshadows the unmistakable loneliness and emotional...
...Beethoven??s “Symphony No. 6,” often called “The Pastoral,” the momentous event in the fourth movement is a storm and the fifth movement represents conciliation and thanksgiving. In Schumann’s third, the “event” is the interior of the great Gothic Cathedral just south of Duesseldorf. It is nearly impossible to discern if the fourth movement is the deepest expression of sorrow or joy, but the extremities of joy and sorrow can often seem indistinguishable due to the profundity...